How I Spent My Summer Holidays
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WhenHow I Spent My Summer Holidayswas first published in 1981 a Western reviewer wrote: "If Who Has Seen the Windtold the story of a young boy's coming to terms with death, How I Spent My Summer Holidaystells of a young man's attempt to come to terms with his own sexuality and that of the world around him."
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The twelve-year-old young man is Hugh, and in small-town Saskatchewan it is the hot summer of 1924. When Hugh and his friends dig a secret cave out on the Prairie, they soon find it occupied by an escaped patient from the mental hospital. Defying the adult world, the boys become involved with a former war hero and current rum-runner, King Motherwell, in sheltering and feeding the runaway. When passions aroused by sex explode into murder, Hugh leaves his boyhood behind him for ever.
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